A Chinese label recording vintage Hawaiian music in an ultra-modern California studio, with mostly non-native musicians? Go figure. But despite...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2021
Every couple of years there surfaces a new and often surprising instance of Robert Crumb’s enduring forays into amateur music-making....
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Here is music that illustrates how all culture begins as an idea in the human mind. The third Imagined Village...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2012
Copper Viper's PR describes them as ‘an acoustic folk group from London,’ which isn't wrong but you could certainly be...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2019
In 2001 Ulf Lindemann (aka Dunkelbunt) moved from Hamburg to Vienna. That was his first journey eastward - his first...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2020
Ever since Carlos Vives turned to the style in the early 90s, vallenato reinstated itself as one of Colombia's most-cherished...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2020
Despite some contemporary harmonisation, a few dressy syncopations, and a surprise visit by slide guitar, this young Quebecois trio don't...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Prince Fatty Meets Nostalgia 77
Having paid his producer's dues from acid jazz groups through to Gregory Isaacs and the Sugarhill Gang, Mike Pelanconi's alter-ego...
Reviewed by Michael Brown in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
This debut album from the Sussex folk singer Rosie Hodgson is the culmination of much time on the English folk...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2017
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